Sentences with phrase «wildfire season in»

There has been an escalation in the severity and length of the wildfire season in the Western United States and diminished water resources, which have been linked to climate change.

Anthony Westerling of Scripps Institution and colleagues found that the average wildfire season in the western United States has lengthened by 78 days from the period 1970 — 86 to 1987 — 2003 as temperatures increased an average 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

That makes this start to wildfire season in the boreal forest a punctuation mark on the longer term trend of ever increasing northern wildfires, one that's expected to continue.

Alaska and its neighbor to the east, Canada, have kicked off wildfire season in a major way.

Catastrophic weather damage happens all the time, especially during hurricane season along the coasts or wildfire season in the west.

Even if all the fires went out across the West tomorrow, this year would still rank as the seventh-most destructive wildfire season in terms of acres burned.

«Rising temperatures are drying out the landscape, amplifying drought conditions, and lengthening the wildfire season in California.»

Westerling said 140,000 acres have burned across Southern California this year — a figure that amounts to nearly four times the five - year average for annual acreage burned in an entire wildfire season in the region.

British Columbia is facing its worst documented wildfire season in almost 60 years — Mika McKinnon went to the city of Kamloops to find out why

It's wildfire season in the western states and as he's done in the past, Cuomo is dispatching some firefighters from the DEC to help out.

As the extraordinary hurricane and wildfire seasons in the United States underscored last year, more and worse extreme - weather events exact huge tolls in lost lives, disaster recovery costs, and economic losses.

The trend towards warmer weather has been repeated elsewhere within the Arctic Circle and both Siberia and the US state of Alaska have experienced record wildfire seasons in the last few years.

Not exact matches

Last year's devastating wildfire season may accelerate the trend of private insurers not renewing policies in fire - hazard areas.

The study also shows that the length of the wildfire season correlates closely with changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall, and other climate indicators.

Wildfire seasons tend to fall in hotter and drier times of the year, when vegetation is vulnerable to burning.

Wildfire seasons all over the planet are lasting longer than they have in the past and burning wider swaths of land, and Earth's changing climate is to blame, according to a new report.

The state's peak wildfire season comes in late July or August, with the hot, dry conditions, although the danger will last well into the fall months.

AUSTIN — A trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season led to the costliest year for natural disasters on record in the U.S. in 2017, with nearly a third of a trillion dollars in damage,...

It's probably how decisions will be made in the wake of Harvey, Irma, Maria, and this season's apocalyptic Western wildfires.

Climate change is «playing an increasing role in the increasing frequency of some types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.

In 2017, the U.S. endured its costliest year for weather and climate disasters on record because of a trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season.

AUSTIN — A trio of monster hurricanes and a ferocious wildfire season led to the costliest year for natural disasters on record in the U.S. in 2017, with nearly a third of a trillion dollars in damage, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday.

It reminds me of living in Southern Oregon, where wildfires and their smoky pink clouds were natural as the cycle of seasons — dry summer drifting into fall.

How an Important Central Coast Vineyard Fought Off the Alamo Fire Two of the current wildfire season's biggest blazes, the Alamo and Whittier fires, have ravaged tens of thousands of acres in Californias Central Coast region, in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, respectively...

«Being literally in the middle of the worst wildfire of California history, literally in the middle of your season, and to come mere points away from winning a section championship is really unfathomable,» MaxPreps.com senior writer Mitch Stephens said.

Since we are now in hurricane and wildfire season, it's a good time to discuss emergencies and disaster areas.

Another fire season is underway in the hot, dry western U.S. Wildfires are wreaking havoc in New Mexico and Colorado, where more than 32,000 people have been evacuated.

A newly sparked wildfire was burning unchecked on Monday in central Washington state, charring about a dozen homes and threatening wide evacuations as crews scrambled to contain the blaze in an unusually destructive fire season on the U.S. West Coast.

Most wildfires here are started by lightning early in the monsoon season, before the rains come to put them out, like the Nuttall fire in 2004, which began on a shoulder of the Pinalenos and catapulted up the mountain, eventually devouring 29,000 acres.

U.S. Forest Service officials told the Associated Press that they are concerned there may be more wildfires than usual this summer, given the lower - than - average rainfall and activity so early in a season that typically peaks in late July and August.

The next mega-droughts and subsequent active wildfire seasons for the western U.S. might be predictable a full year in advance, extending well beyond the current seasonal forecast and helping segments of the economy related to agriculture, water management and forestry.

These questions sent us digging into a stack of 1,702 news articles published by local media in Colorado before, during and after the 2012 wildfire season — the state's worst in history.

«Of course, we can not predict individual rainstorms in California and their local impacts months or seasons ahead, but we can use our climate computer model to determine whether on average the next year will have drier or wetter soils or more or less wildfires.

Wildfires are an annual occurrence during the dry season in Indonesia and are responsible up to 10 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions each year.

Western Wildfires, California Firestorm: $ 18 Billion When: June 1 to Dec. 31, 2017 Deaths: 54 The damage: Wildfires burned more than 9.8 million acres of western U.S. territory in 2017, with cumulative costs triple that of last year's fire season.

SEATTLE (Reuters)- A newly sparked wildfire was burning unchecked on Monday in central Washington state, charring about a dozen homes and threatening wide evacuations as crews scrambled to contain the blaze in an unusually destructive fire season on the U.S. West Coast.

Murthy, confirmed by the Senate in December, said climate change leads to more intense heat waves, more particulates from wildfires clouding the atmosphere, longer allergy seasons and, in turn, more asthma attacks.

Western Wildfires — The increasingly destructive and widespread fire seasons of recent years are likely to continue due to a combination of increased drought and land development encroaching on naturally burning landscapes, along with a climate change — induced fuel boom (enhanced plant growth and a shift to more woody species) exacerbated by fire - suppression efforts leading to more abundant plant matter to fuel violent blazes, according to ecologist Dominique Bachelet of Oregon State University in Corvallis and The Nature Conservancy.

It is official: the state's 2012 wildfire season was a doozy, with record insured losses, and the evacuation of 32,000 residents in the northwestern quadrant of Colorado Springs where 347 homes were destroyed in the Waldo Canyon Fire, the largest number in state history.

Rising temperatures have contributed to lengthening wildfire season by 105 days since 1970 and an uptick in large wildfires.

In this case, the high heat and dry conditions have fueled a brutal wildfire season.

If you live in the northwestern half of the continent, as I do, there has been no escaping this year's extraordinary wildfire season.

These climate changes have measurable effects, like reductions in ground and surface water resources due to changing timing of precipitation and snowmelt, and measurable impacts like declining forest health and more wildfires, to altered crop seasons and greater irrigation demand.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

In summary, we have shown that combined surface weather changes over the last three and a half decades have promoted global wildfire weather season lengthening.

For example, the extreme drought that gripped Indonesia during summer and fall (leading to an intense wildfire season) was caused by a dearth of rainfall linked to El Niño and higher temperatures linked to climate change, one study in the report found.

The impacts of climate change mean that the threshold will likely be crossed more often in the coming century as wildfire season lasts longer and

In fact, the most active wildfire seasons are often those that are hotter and drier than average.

This comes on the heels of a 2015 wildfire season that was the worst on record in the U.S., with more than 10 million acres burned.

«The result was an all time record hurricane season in 2015 and record heat - waves, droughts and wildfires around the world.»